Hi,
that's correct. The rule of thumb is that RAID5 is usually the "Sys
Admin's choice" whereas the "DBA's choice" is more like
1-controller-per-disk-per-datafile ;)
James Howerton schrieb:
>
> I lost the battle. We have Hitachi raid 5 hooked-up to a Sun E10K and write
>performance does "SUCK"!!!
> Maybe "THEY" will listen next time;-)...
>
> ...JIM...
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/1/01 10:36:01 AM >>>
> doesn't write performance kind of suck too?
> KK
>
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> Jahnke
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> Ravindra Basavaraja schrieb:
> >
> > We are planning to move our database to Sun 4500 with A1000(RAID 5).Our
> > system admin group has been
> > working on this setup and I was told that the A1000 which is having 4
> disks
> > will be seen as just as
> > one mount point after configuration.Is this the correct way of
> > confuguration.Don't we see each disk
> > of A1000 as different mount point.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ravindra
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> if you setup a group of disks as a RAID5 disk array, they appear as one
> logical unit. Hence, you only see one single mount point. Advantages:
> Read access is usually faster, since the data is transparantly
> distributed to your disks by the RAID system. It's another step towards
> higher availability since RAID5 usually gives you the feature of
> replacing a damaged disk while the file system keeps operating.
> Disadvantage: You don't have that much control over the degree of
> fragmentation since the data distribution is done by the RAID system.
>
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